Hold on to your seats Liveleakers…
“These Marines stomped so much ass that they actually had to stop filming, so they could import colons from other Arab countries to meet the demand!” ~Fire37Rescue
US Marine Combat Footage in HiDef that slipped past me.Was released on the 16th of this month, according to my sources. Combat Afghanistan with all the bullets flying and Taliban dying you come to expect from US Marines.You’ll want to favorite this bad boy.

In Federal Court in New Bern, NC today, three would-be Islamist terrorists were found guilty of a slew of terrorism-related charges in a planned attack on unsuspecting wives and children of Marine Corps personnel residing on the sprawling Marine base in Quantico, Virginia.

Ziyad Yaghi, 23; Hysen Sherifi, 27; and Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan, 24 all stood before Her Honor U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan as they had their convictions and sentences publically read to them.

Marines urinating on dead Taliban, throwing a puppy off a cliff, Soldiers beating a sheep to death, prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib, taking body parts as war trophies, etc., etc. To see the coverage of American soldiers in the Middle East, you’d think this was the norm for our men in uniform.

I am not making excuses for any of it; the Marines need to be punished, but I hope it won’t end up being a court-martial. I want to bring attention to the fact that the whole world comes down on America when these things happen. Our own government and mainstream media “deplore” it. When you Google “US deplores Marines” you will find 672,000 results. Much of that is duplicated when searching for “US deplores Army” with 1,530,000 results. However when I searched for “Marines urinating on Taliban” there were 37,900,000 results. Now you can add this post to that list.

Yet for all this heat and light about American misbehavior, not much is said when our enemies blow up innocent men, women, and children, behead and torture anyone they capture (and by torture, I don’t just mean waterboarding), shoot down MEDEVAC helicopters, use suicide murderers to kill and maim scores of Afghans at a wedding, drag bodies through the streets, burn, dismember, and hang them from a bridge and celebrate the events; then torture and murder a pregnant woman, and have no regard for the Geneva Convention, because they they take hostages, not prisoners, and the list goes on and on and on.

Certainly, what some of our Marines and Soldiers have done is deplorable, but it pales in comparison to what our enemies have done in the current conflict. And yet, our government and media are treating them with greater respect than our troops. Read the rest here.

Some information for everybody about myself. I write here (on Pat Dollards website) as SGT SMITH, talk in the chat room during the BTR Jihadikiller hour shows as Smitty. I’ve made a couple appearances on the show calling in. This is to let you know who I am, a little bit of what I’ve done; and why I choose to do what I do.

When I was a Junior in high school, I watched as our country came under attack from cowards. I remember that day as everybody does. My deciding point for joining the military came later that day. My father is a firefighter and that evening, there was a memorial service for all of those emergency responders who had lost their lives earlier that day. I sat in a pew next to my mother as I watched the line of firefighters; who I had grown up with being my big brothers, walk down the aisle with their black mourning bands on their badges. I watched as every one of them lost their composure and started to cry. It was at that exact moment that I was young enough to do something, and that I needed to. October of 2002 I found myself at MEPS in Kansas City volunteering for the Marine Corps.

There are lines that can be crossed. There are times when someone can go too far in their comments, even when they are trying to be funny. I understand satire and I love it….most of the time. Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not one that is easily offended. In fact you can say whatever you want about me or to me; I really don’t care. What I will not stand for is you saying anything mean or hateful about someone that I care for or love that will hurt them or disrespect them. Like I said, about me…BRING IT! About someone I care about, don’t even go there.

I love my family and I love and care for my dearest friends. I care for soldiers, and when I say soldiers I use that as a general term referring to all service-members in any branch. I am a 1SG, which means looking after and caring for soldiers is my main priority in my military life.

I have had several of my own soldiers (that reported to me) wounded in combat and I was there in the hospital visiting with them and trying to lift their spirits (even kidnapping one out of the hospital and taking him to a gentleman’s club). I have seen my soldiers suffer, and I have seen the families of my soldiers worry and cry over their loved ones.

Last year I was privileged enough to visit Walker Reed Medical Center and The Fisher House while on The Sandbox book tour in Washington DC. Garry Trudeau, David Stanford, Owen Powell, his wife and I were lucky enough to meet some true warriors (who were mostly in wheel chairs and missing limbs), talk with them and have dinner with them and their families. These young men were very awe-inspiring to see them suffer the one wound that most soldiers fear more than anything else (losing a limb and being mangled for life, and still keeping a positive outlook on life. We also had the opportunity to tour the new Amputee center and see all of the ways that Walter Reed doctors and nurses are helping our wounded rehabilitate. In fact the still picture below in the video is in that Center and I have been in that exact room.

I walked away from the hospital grounds that night very humbled and damn proud to be a soldier.

I wrote all of that so you know where I am coming from, and so you would know why I am so pissed at The Onion. I like The Onion normally and I try to grab a copy whenever I can for me to read and for my son becuase he loves it. I can laugh at a lot of stuff, but there are limits.

Now if you are as upset as I am after watching that video, you may be asking yourself “What can I do about this Bouhammer?” Well Bouhammer has the answer for you. Why not email the participating entities and let them know how disturbed you are with the disrespect and disgraceful way that they represented out wounded warriors.

Also, Both Fosters and Burger King (yes the same Burger King that has restaurants on almost every military base in the US and most of the large bases overseas to include Iraq and Afghanistan) are advertisers, so they may also want to hear your feelings on this video.

I hope you join me and the rest of the Pitchfork Brigade who has voiced their opinion on this matter HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE to name a few.

All of the teams made valiant efforts, but none could match the raw talent of RCT-1, Team 2.

As a late entry in the tournament, Marines with RCT-1, Team 2 played in the last game of the first day of the competition, winning in the final minutes 20-12 over the Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 125th Infantry Regiment.

RCT-1, Team 2’s next two games were not nearly as close. The team won each game convincingly by scores of 44-12 against 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion and 53-18 against Combat Logistics Battalion 5.

In the championship on Thanksgiving Day, they faced off against Soldiers with the Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 158th Field Artillery Regiment.

158th won the coin toss, opted to receive the ball first and quickly marched down field to score on their first drive.

RCT-1, Team 2 turned the ball over on downs during their first offensive possession, but their reorganized defense forced Army to punt and the Marines’ offense was able to capitalize on the ensuing drive with a 50-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Bryan Hughes to receiver Jerry Murphy.

Going into halftime RCT-1, Team 2 led 18-12. The six-point difference marked the smallest lead margin the Marines held at the half since their first game in the tournament. In the second half that all changed.

Hughes opened up the second half with a series of precision passes to receivers Rodney Lane, Tracy Johnson, and Cedric Foster, and then a touchdown strike to receiver Jeremy Franklin.

The high-powered RCT-1, Team 2 offense scored 20 unanswered points thanks in part to their tenacious defense, led by linebacker Philip Benzie and safety Stephen Geib. Benzie led the team with 18 tackles through the tournament, and Geib led the team with four interceptions.

The 38-18 victory won the team a championship trophy and bragging rights aboard the camp.

“We had a great team who worked well together and just went out there and played football,” said RCT-1, Team 2 coach Brad Owen. “I had a large selection of athletes to choose from and we had an outstanding team from top to bottom.”

Col. Ronald Kapral, the commanding officer of 81st HBCT, said after the game that while most Americans were just waking-up to celebrate Thanksgiving, the Camp Ramadi Turkey Bowl was possibly the first Thanksgiving football game of the year.

Kapral also thanked everyone involved for their participation and congratulated the Marines on their win as he presented them with the trophy.

Marine Corporal Garrett Jones is back in combat, and he’s mad as…well, you get the picture.

While on patrol with his unit, the 2/7 Marine Regiment in Iraq a little over a year ago, Cpl Jones remembers a flash and a cloud of smoke. He was thrown through the air into a sewage canal. After that, things got fuzzy. When he awoke, a chaplain informed him he’d lost his leg above the knee. Jones recalls saying, “I hear they make really good prosthetics.”

Seventeen surgeries and a whole lot of physical therapy now behind him, the tough young corporal is back in battle with his buddies – this time in Afghanistan. He’s one of a growing number of amputees who refuse to allow the loss of a limb to stop them from serving. And Jones recuperated in record time – a little under nine months after his injury, he was training to return to his unit. To do so, he had to prove himself all over again, going through all the same pre-deployment training as the others.

This is, after all, the Marine Corps. They don’t play wait-up.

“My leg popped off a couple of times in the humvee scenario and once when I was leaving a range,” Jones said. “I thought it was funny because ‘How many guys walk around with combat loads and have a leg fall off?’ I still did it to prove that I could deploy as an amputee.”

It’s that kind of spirit that enables him to endure the brutal operational tempo and primitive living conditions that his unit must endure in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan. And being the first above-the-knee amputee to return to combat with his unit makes him a literal walking legend with his peers.

Jones recently submitted his paperwork to reenlist for another stint with the unit he loves. He also plans to represent the Marine corps this winter in another amazing display of toughness – a national snowboarding competition.

“I love being with the guys, the same people. I really do,” Jones said. “If it wasn’t for the guys in this unit, I wouldn’t be here. It’s an honor to serve with them and be in a place where many Marines don’t get a chance to go.”

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"Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR."
~ Vietnam Pilot

"In combat, honor is obtained by those who do what must be done, not what is allowed by those who refuse to fight or die for their own cause...my extremes pump fear into the enemy for generations come, your extremes cause warriors to bow in the presence of the unworthy, presenting weakness and opportunity ... well, I bow to no man"
~ Antonio Cezar Vega